Hardspace: Shipbreaker

I played with easier options like o2 slow drain and unlimited time mode and I can't recommend this game enough. I get why people complain about the un-skippable talking when you star breaking down a ship but I enjoyed the story enough that it didn't really bother me. All I want is more of this game but with bigger and complex ships in a DLC or a sequel.

I got almost 35 hours and these are the moments you wish steam gave you a 3rd option other than recommended and not recommended. I guess I'll go with recommended but buy it during a sale. It's not a bad game and it's somewhat relaxing but after a while it gets repetitive. I was expecting to go to places, but you're always at the same place deconstructing ship after ship. Goods: It does what it promises pretty well. It's fun to have a 6 DOF flight and the tools work nice. It's great that they added options to play it on your own pace too. The story is ok'ish but I don't think it adds much as it's basically the same big corporation in the future narrative. It adds levels of complexity as you go and that's nice as well. There are small touches, like the found messages or fixing the ship some char gave you. It's relaxing to play...for a while. Bads: It does get repetetive. There are different ships and you need to take into consideration of doing certain things in a certain order so apart from those little differences, it's the same thing over and over again. I think it's kind of relaxing as well but accidents happen and sometimes there is nothing you can do about them. I just died because there was no way to decompress air on half of a big ship. I took 80 minutes to clear the first part. Taking my time, relaxed...Then this second part I just had to pick a spot and basically put a hole in the hull. So the ship yeets itself almost out of the game area - I didn't even know this was even a thing. So I went all the way there because I just spend almost 1.5 hours on this ship. And it started to give me the you're getting out of working area alarm...then I died. Huh. This makes the player feel unfair. I hate this feeling when playing a game. The other types of accidents are often like that as well. When a new danger is introduced you get a basic idea but doing it is a different story. Often you think I should be cutting here and bang you're dead. This kills the relaxing mood fast as you can imagine. Overall if you're a space nerd, I recommend it but you might want to wait for a sale.

Good game if you enjoy taking things apart. It's kinda like timed puzzle boxes of increasing complexity

fun zero-g physics action with a great story in between jobs

good game. Relaxing esecially when you turn your brain off

A compelling story which hits hard in the modern era as a backdrop to a fun, challenging de-constructor.

If you're looking for something to occupy your while you watch a show or listen to a podcast this is the perfect game - it is perfectly satisfying taking these ships apart and work your way up the numbers (or down the debt number) getting ever bigger ships with more difficult to handle subsystems. Just be prepared to pause that podcast quite a bit as there is quite the story unfolding via "chating with your foreman and colleagues via comms" brought to life so lovingly that you can't help be drawn into this universe and feel with your colleagues. It also has what feels like a very (and always) revelant view on "the company is not your friend" and needing to fight for your rights lest you want to become a total slave.

Controls are really bad and the movement is janky as hell.